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Piper Kerman

By Steve Hall

Piper Kerman is the author of a news book that is attracting a lot of Buzz, Orange Is the New Black: A Year in a Women's Prison.The Sunday New York Times Magazine of March 15 ran her essay, "Prison, Day 1."On a dreary February morning in 2004, my fiancé, Larry, and I pulled into the parking lot of the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn. After years of legal proceedings and more than a decade after I committed a reckless drug-related crime, I was there, at age 34, to surrender myself to the federal government. Before we got out of the car, I stripped off all my jewelry ? my seven thin gold engagement rings; the sapphire ring, a family heirloom; the 1950s man?s watch that was always around my wrist; all the earrings from the extra holes in my right ear that so vexed my grandfather...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).